OTR, Take 19: Neil Young - Harvest Moon & Harvest
Owen McGrann
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This has been a week of extremes, from the weather dropping nearly 50 degrees one day to the next, to a trying week concluded with a wonderful meeting yesterday afternoon that gave me a good jolt of happy brain chemicals. This is a thought that is as trite as it is true: things are never as good as you think they are, nor as bad as you fear they are.
It's so easy to get lost in a temporary feeling, to plumb downward rather than continue forward. But you can always move forward, or backward, take a move laterally. Regardless, you needn't stay in that feeling.
A few weeks ago, I joked that sending me records wouldn't guarantee that I'll feature the record and talk about you, but it wasn't going to hurt those chances. Well, today's record arrived a few days ago and I would perhaps consider it a bribe, but for the fact that my buddy Rob sent me the album. And he has no need to bribe me, as he's already one of my very, very favorite people on earth.
Rob and I have a long history of sending each other ridiculous gifts. For a while, back in a more innocent time in politics, we had an escalating gifting war. In 2007, before Rudy Giuliani had fully ripped off his America's Mayor mask to reveal the sweaty, sniveling bootlick he is, I was in law school and received a package from Rob.
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Such a well-written and vibrant piece the album (Harvest Moon) that first peaked my interest in my now favorite artist. As to the Kurt Cobain rumor cited by Rob…I want it to be true as well.
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1 年I'll confirm a few bits - - I think we've stopped sending each other ludicrous gifts because the things which we considered ludicrous are now mainstream for a certain part of our body politic - if you never, ever, want to sleep again, DM me for my current political work. You will need all of reddit.com/r/eyebleach to live a normal life - I still look for stuff to send you out of gest Owen McGrann Also, I heard that Neil Young was encouraged to write Harvest Moon by Kurt Cobain. I have no source for this assertion, but I want it to be true.
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1 年Beautifully reflected and written as always Owen McGrann And this was a special one for me given the Toronto, ???? protagonist. “Come a little bit closer Hear what I have to say” Sounds like a good title for your book!